EP0687501A2 - Magnetscheideverfahren bei Gebrauch einer Pipette, sowie klinische Analysevorrichtungen, die dieses Verfahren anwenden - Google Patents

Magnetscheideverfahren bei Gebrauch einer Pipette, sowie klinische Analysevorrichtungen, die dieses Verfahren anwenden Download PDF

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EP0687501A2
EP0687501A2 EP95109144A EP95109144A EP0687501A2 EP 0687501 A2 EP0687501 A2 EP 0687501A2 EP 95109144 A EP95109144 A EP 95109144A EP 95109144 A EP95109144 A EP 95109144A EP 0687501 A2 EP0687501 A2 EP 0687501A2
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  • the present invention relates to a novel magnetic material attracting/releasing control method which can capture or diffuse a magnetic material.
  • the invention also relates to various types of analyzer using the method.
  • the "magnetic material” indicates not only to ball-like materials, but also to granular and corpuscular materials, and the form is not limited to a sphere; any form is allowable.
  • CLI method chemiluminescence methods
  • EIA enzyme immunoassay
  • CLIA chemiluminesence immunoassay
  • CLIA chemil- luminescent enzyme immunoassay
  • the magnetic particle method using magnetic particles each having a surface coated with an antigen or an antibody there have been known the magnetic particle method using magnetic particles each having a surface coated with an antigen or an antibody, the latex method using latex having a surface coated with an antigen or an antibody, the beads method using spheric beads each having a surface coated with an antigen or an antibody, or the so-called tube coating method using cells each having an inner wall coated with an antigen or an antibody.
  • the magnetic bodies such as magnetic particles or beads are far more advantageous.
  • step (g) agitation is carried out by an shaking agitator
  • step (h) the magnetic material 2 is attracted by the magnet M with the cleaning liquid discharged
  • step labeling liquid 6 is poured in through a fourth pipette device P 4
  • step (j) agitation is carried out by a shaking agitator
  • step (k) incubation (reason under a constant reaction) is carried out
  • step (I) the magnetic material is attracted by the magnet M with the reaction liquid discharged
  • step (m) the cleaning liquid is poured in through a fifth pipette device Ps.
  • step (n) agitation is carried out by the shaking agitator.
  • step (o) the magnetic material 2 is attracted by the magnet M with the cleaning liquid discharged
  • step (p) the carried liquid is poured in
  • step (q) agitation is carried out by a shaking agitator
  • step (r) the sample is left for a certain period of time
  • step (s) the quantity of light emitted from the reaction system is measured with an optical measuring instrument such as PMT.
  • step (t) a cleaning liquid containing the magnetic material 2 in the vessel 1 is sucked out with the cleaning liquid poured into a measuring cell with a filter provided thereon, and the magnetic material 2 contained in the cleaning liquid is collected by the filter. Then, in step (u), hydrogen peroxide liquid (H 2 0 2 ) is poured into the magnetic material 2 collected by said filter to have liquid emitted transitionally, and a quantity of emitted light is measured by PMT tightly protected against light coming from outside.
  • H 2 0 2 hydrogen peroxide liquid
  • a checking method like the CLEIA method or EIA method, in which light emission is continued for a certain period of time after a substrate liquid is poured in step (s), in step (t) a quantity of light generated in the reaction is measured with an optical measurement instrument such as a PMT.
  • the above description relates to the conventional type of inspection method using a magnetic material, but as clearly understood from the foregoing, in the conventional inspection method making use of the type of magnetic material as described above, it is required to attract the magnetic material onto the internal wall of a container and then homogeneously diffuse the attracted magnetic material into a liquid several times. It is extremely difficult to execute separation of the magnetic material from a liquid, agitation, and cleaning the container at high precision, a problem to be solved.
  • the magnetic material when gathering magnetic material on the internal surface of a container and inserting a pipette into a liquid to absorb the liquid, the magnetic material may be absorbed together with the liquid, and it is extremely difficult to completely capture the magnetic material.
  • the pipette can realize substantial improvement of measurement precision in an inspection method making use of this type of magnetic material by for complete attraction in a short period with magnetism of a magnet provided on the absorp- tion/discharge side of a pipette chip or the like in this pipette device.
  • An inspection device using a magnetic material can be produced material with the invention, simple in terms of construction and operation thereof and also more versatile and low in cost.
  • a magnet is provided in a liquid suction line in a pipette for sucking and discharging a liquid from inside a container. Any magnetic material in a liquid attracted by the liquid suction line due to magnetism in the magnet is absorbed and maintained on the internal surface of the liquid suction line, and then the magnetic material is separated from the liquid suction line and discharged together with the liquid from the liquid suction line.
  • a plurality of liquid suction lines are provided in parallel to each other. Sucking or discharging a liquid in each liquid suction line is driven and controlled so that absorption or separation of magnetic material in the liquid will be executed concurrently. This enables realization of a multi-channel system allowing concurrent processing of a plurality of specimens.
  • each liquid suction line is controlled independently at a different timing so that suction and discharge of liquid are controlled to attract or separate the magnetic material mixed and diffused therein through a specific treatment process, respectively.
  • the magnet described above includes any type of permanent magnet or electric magnet as far as it can generate magnetism for attracting a magnetic material, and one or more pieces of magnet can be provided in each liquid suction line in correspondence to the diameter of the liquid suction line, quantity of magnetic material to be attracted, and size thereof.
  • Various types of mode for locating the magnets can be considered, for instance, magnets may be located in the direction in which a liquid flows in the liquid suction line or at opposite positions in both sides of the liquid suction line, or in the radial direction.
  • the above magnets can be located in the outside of the liquid suction line, or directly onto the liquid suction line.
  • a liquid suction line is formed by dismountably mounting a pipette chip onto a tip section of the liquid sucking side thereof.
  • the magnet body is arranged so that magnetism generated by the magnet body works over magnetic material inside the pipette chip.
  • the pipette chip described above is used repeatedly only for the same specimen in a process in which the specimen is processed according to a specified processing sequence for inspection to prevent cross-contamination. Any number of pipette chips may be used for the same specimen according to the requirement for a reaction or a treatment process in various types of inspection.
  • the liquid suction line is formed with a nozzle system in which a pipette chip can not be loaded or unloaded, it is possible to separate the magnetic material from the liquid, agitate and clean the internal as well as external surface of the liquid-contacting section contacting liquid in the liquid suction line by means of sucking or discharging the liquid to a degree where cross-contamination will not occur.
  • Another feature of the present invention consists in that separation of the magnetic material from the liquid, agitation and cleaning can be carried out by sucking liquid into or discharging a liquid from the liquid suction line once or more than once.
  • separation of magnetic material from a liquid is executed by maintaining the state where magnetic material is absorbed and deposited on the internal surface of a liquid suction line and discharging only the liquid.
  • This is alternatively accomplished by inserting a pipette chip with magnetic material attracted by a magnet body and deposited on an internal surface thereof into liquid stored in an other container and repetitiously sucking and discharging the liquid to a state where the magnetic material is not affected by magnetism in the magnet body described above.
  • the agitation and cleaning steps described above are executed by transferring the pipette chip with magnetic material attracted by the magnet body and deposited onto an internal surface thereof as is to the position for agitation and cleaning and then repeating the operations for sucking and discharging the liquid.
  • agitation and cleaning can be executed with the magnetic material deposited on an internal surface of a pipette chip or executing an operation for sucking and discharging the liquid once or more to a state where the magnetic material is not affected by a magnet body.
  • the present invention it is possible to homogeneously diffuse magnetic material in a liquid by sucking and discharging the liquid in a liquid suction line in a pipette device. It is also possible to improve the cleaning efficiency, and in addition, although liquid sucking and discharging is executed between a liquid suction line and a container, the liquid containing magnetic material does not splash out from the container. Hence, the agitation and cleaning processes can be executed under stable conditions without causing the possibility of lowering precision in measurement due to splashing of the liquid containing magnetic material.
  • the operations for separating magnetic material from a liquid containing it therein, agitation and cleaning can be executed by transferring a magnet body to a liquid containing magnetic material previously stored in a liquid storage section in a cartridge having a plurality of liquid storage sections therein. Sucking or discharging the liquid is performed according to need, or by maintaining the state where magnetic material is deposited on an internal surface of a pipette chip and discharging the residual liquid from the container. Then, liquid required for the next process is poured into the same container and sucking or discharging the liquid poured anew is carried out with the pipette chip.
  • any specific form of a container is not required for sucking and discharging liquid in a liquid suction line to execute the operations for separating magnetic material from a liquid containing it therein, agitation, and cleaning.
  • Another significant feature of the present invention is that it is possible to execute both qualitative and quantitative assessment of a target material contained in a liquid by accurately controlling the quantity of liquid sucked by a liquid suction line.
  • the method according to the present invention is applicable to and effective in a reaction generated between magnetic material and a liquid not containing any magnetic material, a material present in a liquid, and other materials which can physically and chemically be deposited on a magnet body.
  • the materials include immunological materials, biological materials, and molecular-biological materials such as antigens, antibodies, proteins, enzymes, DNA, vector DNAs, RNAs or plasmid.
  • the method can be applied to inspection or a analyzer for isotopes required for qualitative or quantitative analysis, enzymes, and other labeling materials used for chemiluminescence, fluoro-illuminescence, and electro-chemical illuminescence or the like.
  • the method according to the present invention can be applied to apparatus for immunological assay, inspections making use of chemical reaction, extraction, recovery and separation of DNAs.
  • a container is formed in a cassette having a plurality of liquid storage sections.
  • a liquid or reagent required for reaction or processing is poured into each liquid storage section, and the container should preferably be transferred with a magnetic material attracted by the magnet body to and deposited on an internal surface of a liquid suction line as is.
  • the liquid is previously poured into each liquid storage section as described above, and only a portion thereof may be processed or be processed gradually in the treatment process.
  • a specimen can directly be measured quantitatively, for instance, in a parent specimen container and then poured into each liquid storage section.
  • the liquid storage sections in the cassette may be arranged either in a single array or in a plurality of arrays and formed into a form like a microplate. If the cassette is a form like a microplate, a multi-channel system can be realized by locating a plurality of liquid suction lines in correspondence to the liquid storage section arrays, and thus the processing capability is substantially improved.
  • the present invention is applied to an immunochemical inspection method based on the chemilluminescence method with reference to an embodiment of the present invention shown in the attached drawings.
  • the field of application of the present invention is not limited to the embodiment, and the present invention can be applied to any case as far as a magnetic material attracting/releasing method making use of a pipette device is applied and magnetic material is used.
  • the magnetic material is defined as magnetic material, which can be adhered to a surface of an antigen or an antigen, being attracted by a magnet body for B/F separation (separation of materials bound to antigen or antibody and those not bound to them).
  • the sign P indicates a pipette chip for pouring a specified quantity of specimen from a parent vessel, such as a blood tube (not shown), into a specimen reaction container 1 and also for discharging from or sucking into the specimen reaction container 1 a reaction insoluble magnetic material liquid 3, a cleaning liquid 5, an enzyme-labeling liquid 6, a substrate liquid 7, a reaction stop liquid 8 or the like.
  • the pipette chip P has a three-staged form consisting of a thinnest section 10 inserted into the specimen reaction container 1, a medium diameter section 11 having a larger diameter than the thinnest section 10, and a large diameter section 12 having a larger diameter than the medium diameter section 11.
  • a magnet M for attracting the reaction insoluble magnetic material 3 is detachably fitted to an external peripheral surface of the medium diameter section 11 with a mechanism for sucking or discharging liquid in a cylinder or the like disconnectably connected and communicated to a top edge section of this pipette chip P.
  • this pipette chip P is not limited to that shown in this figure; any form is allowable on the condition that, when a liquid is sucked into the pipette chip P, any magnetic material contained in the liquid is captured by the magnet M without fail. To completely capture the magnetic material with the magnet, however, it is desirable to form the section contacted by the magnet with a small diameter. This also is preferable for efficiently controlling flow rate while sucking or discharging liquid.
  • a molded pipette chip having a large diameter may be used to prevent the DNAs from being broken or damaged due to physical force effecting magnetic material deposited on the DNAs and generated when liquid is sucked or discharged.
  • a plurality of liquid storage sections 1A through 1H are provided in a straight array, in a loop, or in a zig-zag form with a roughly specified quantity of specimen having been poured in the liquid storage section 1A, a specified quantity of reaction insoluble magnetic material liquid 3 in the liquid storage section 1B, a specified quantity of cleaning liquid 5 in the liquid storage sections 1 C and 1D, a specified quantity of labeling liquid in the liquid storage section 1 E, a specified quantity of cleaning liquid 5 in the liquid storage sections 1 and 1G, each filled with the liquid before start of inspection, and a substrate liquid in the liquid storage section 1H for measurement of the light-emitting state.
  • the specimen reaction container 1 is made of opaque material to prevent any effect by illuminescence, and in the case of the EIA inspection at least the bottom section is made of a transparent material.
  • the specimen reaction container 1 constructed as described above and the pipette chip P When carrying out immunochemical inspection according to the present invention using the specimen reaction container 1 constructed as described above and the pipette chip P, the specimen having been poured into the liquid storage section 1A by a roughly specified quantity is sucked with the pipette chip P above by a specified quantity for quantitative analysis.
  • the pipette chip P with the specimen sucked thereinto is transferred and all of the specimen having been sucked is discharged into the reaction insoluble magnetic material liquid 3 in the liquid storage section 1 B.
  • a mixture of the specimen and the reaction insoluble magnetic material liquid 3 then is repeatedly sucked and discharged with the pipette chip P (this operation is called liquid sucking/discharge hereinafter) to generate a state where the magnetic material 2 has been homogeneously agitated and mixed therein. In several hours, all, or a specified quantity of, the incubated mixed liquid is sucked with the pipette chip P.
  • the magnetic material 2 floating in the mixed liquid sucked by the pipette chip P is captured onto an internal wall surface of the medium diameter section 11 due to magnetism of the magnet M provided outside the pipette chip P, as shown in Fig. 2, when the mixed liquid passes through the medium diameter section 11 of the pipette chip P.
  • the mixed liquid is sucked into the pipette chip P to the height shown in Fig. 2, so that, when all the mixed liquid is sucked into the pipette chip, the bottom face x comes near a lower edge of the magnet M or to a level higher than that and the magnetic material 2 is completely captured.
  • the mixed liquid with the magnetic material having been removed therefrom is discharged into the liquid storage section 1 B, and only the magnetic material 2 remains in the pipette chip P.
  • the magnetic material 2 is wet then, even if the mixed liquid is exhausted, the magnetic material 2 is kept deposited on an internal surface of the medium diameter section 11 of the pipette chip P, so that, even if the pipette chip is transferred, the magnetic material rarely drops off from the internal surface.
  • the pipette chip P is transferred to the next liquid storage section 1 C with the magnetic material 2 captured therein, and sucks the cleaning liquid 5 in the liquid storage section 1 C.
  • the magnet M moves away from the pipette chip P to release the magnetic material 2, and therefore by sucking and discharging the cleaning liquid 5, all the magnetic material 2 can efficiently be cleaned.
  • the pipette chip P slowly sucks all the cleaning liquid 5 (for 5 to 10 seconds) in the liquid storage section 1 C. Then the magnet M is again moved toward the pipette chip P to capture all the magnetic material 2 floating in the sucked cleaning liquid 5, and the cleaning liquid 5 with the magnetic material 2 having been removed therefrom is discharged into the liquid storage section 1 C, so that only the magnetic material 2 remains in the pipette chip P.
  • the pipette chip P is transferred to the next liquid storage section 1D with the magnetic material 2 captured therein and sucks the cleaning liquid 5 in the liquid storage section 1 D, where the operations for cleaning and capturing the magnetic material 2 are executed according to the same sequence as that in the liquid storage section 1 C.
  • the pipette chip P is transferred to the next storage section 1 E with the cleaned magnetic material 2 captured therein, and sucks the labeling liquid 6 in the liquid storage section 1 E. Then the magnet M moves away from the pipette chip P to release the magnetic material 2, and thus by sucking and discharging the labeling liquid 6, all the magnetic material 2 and the labeling liquid 6 can be reacted to each other homogeneously.
  • the pipette chip P is transferred to the next liquid storage section 1 with the magnetic material 2 captured therein, sucks the cleaning liquid 5 in the liquid storage section 1 F, executes operations for cleaning and capturing the magnetic material 2 according to the same sequence as those in the liquid storage sections 1 C and 1D, sucks the cleaning liquid 5 in the liquid storage section 1 G according to the same sequence as that for sucking the cleaning liquid in the liquid storage section 1 F, and then executes operations for cleaning and capturing the magnetic material 2.
  • the pipette chip P is transferred to the liquid storage section 1 H, and for instance if a measurement in which illuminescence is continued after mixed with a substrate liquid and a certain period of time is required until a rate of light emission is stabilized as in the CLEIA inspection is to be carried out, the substrate liquid 7 previously stored in the liquid storage section 1 H is sucked by the pipette chip P. Then the magnet M moves away from the pipette chip P and releases the magnetic material 2, so that it is possible to homogenize the reaction between the magnetic material 2 and the substrate liquid 7 by sucking and discharging the substrate liquid 7.
  • a quantity of emitted light is measured by the optical measurement instrument 9 such as a PMT as shown in Fig. 3.
  • the liquid storage section 1 H is provided as shown in Fig. 4, a filter 16 and a water-absorbing pad 20 is provided in the liquid storage section 1 H, and the magnetic material 2 is discharged together with the cleaning liquid 5 sucked in the previous process from the pipette chip P into the liquid storage section 1 H to have the magnetic material 2 captured by the filter 16.
  • a light-emitting trigger liquid 7 such as hydrogen peroxide liquid (H 2 0 2 ) is supplied from a nozzle 17 to make the magnetic material emit light, and a quantity of light emitted when said substrate liquid is poured may be measured with an optical measurement instrument 9 such as a PMT.
  • a reaction stop liquid is supplied and as shown in Fig. 5, a light beam having a specified wavelength is irradiated from a bottom section of the liquid storage section 1 H, and a degree of absorbency is measured by a light-receiving element and a detector by checking the specific color.
  • the specimen reaction container 1 it is possible to respond to a plurality types of immunochemical inspection by changing only configuration of the liquid storage section 1 H in correspondence to various inspection methods, so that the versatility can substantially be improved. Also a multi-channel system of this type can be realized by providing liquid storage section in a plurality of arrays in the specimen reaction container 1 to form it into a form like a microplate.
  • the present invention is not limited to the configuration described above: the specimen reaction container 1 may be cleaned any number of times according to need.
  • the description of the above embodiment assumed a case where the pipette chip P and the specimen reaction container 1 are disposable, although a configuration is allowable where the pipette chip P and the specimen reaction container 1 can be cleaned and used repeatedly. Also, the description of the above embodiment assumed a case in which the waste liquid after being sucked by the pipette chip P is recycled to the original liquid storage section from which the liquid was sucked. A configuration is also allowable, however, where the waste liquid is returned to a waste liquid section provided outside the specimen reaction container 1.
  • the present invention is applicable to a case where the pipette chip P is not used and a liquid suction line is formed as a nozzle system, and in this case, the configuration as shown in Fig. 6 is allowable where a lower edge section P A of the liquid suction line P 1 is formed into a thin diameter section, and the magnet M or an electro-magnet is moved to or away from the lower edge section P A of the liquid suction line Pi.
  • the electro-magnet When using the electro-magnet, a configuration is allowable where the electro-magnet is fitted to the thin diameter section of a liquid suction line or the electro-magnet is directly wound around the thin diameter section of the liquid suction line and operations for separating magnetic material from a liquid, agitation, and cleaning are executed by turning ON or OFF a current.
  • the description of the embodiment above assumes a case where the magnet M is detachably fitted to one side of the medium diameter section 11 of the pipette chip P, but the magnets M may be provided in both sides of the medium diameter section 11 as shown in Fig. 7. Also, a plurality of magnets M may be provided in a radial form around the medium diameter section 11 shown in Fig. 8, and also a plurality of magnets may be provided along the longitudinal direction of the medium diameter section 11, although that case is not shown herein.
  • magnetic material is loaded or unloaded by making use of a pipette device, and capture of the magnetic material is executed not in the side of a container in which a liquid is stored, but in the side of a liquid suction line for sucking and discharging a liquid containing magnetic material by making use of magnetism in a magnet provided therein, so that the magnetic material can almost completely be captured within a short period of time.
  • a multi-channel system in which a plurality of specimens can be processed concurrently and the processing capability can be enhanced by providing a plurality of the liquid suction line described above and controlling the operations for sucking and discharging a liquid so that each liquid suction line absorbs or releases magnetic material at the same timing respectively.
  • processing can be enhanced and various types of liquid each requiring a specific process can be processed by providing a plurality of liquid suction lines described above and controlling each of the liquid suction lines so that magnetic material is absorbed or released by sucking or discharging each liquid containing the magnetic material independently at a different timing according to a specified process required for each liquid.
  • the processing capability can be furthermore enhanced by integrating a liquid suction line and a magnet body into a unit and providing a plurality of units along the container transfer line.
  • the magnet material when a liquid containing magnetic material is sucked or discharged, the magnet material is absorbed onto an internal surface of the pipette chip, so that the magnetic material can almost completely be captured, and the pipette chip can be transferred to the next reaction process or processing step with the magnetic material deposited on the internal surface thereof.
  • the pipette chip is repeatedly used only for the same specimen in a process in which a specimen is processed according to a specified inspection method, so that cross contamination can be prevented. If the liquid suction line is based on a nozzle system in which a pipette chip is not loaded or unloaded, it is possible to prevent cross contamination by cleaning an internal surface of the liquid suction line by means of sucking and discharging a liquid.
  • operations for separating magnetic material from a liquid containing the magnetic material therein, agitation and cleaning are executed by sucking and discharging the liquid with the cleaned liquid suction line described above once or more, so that the magnetic material can almost completely be captured.
  • the operations of agitating and cleaning magnetic material are executed, as described above, in the side of a liquid suction line of a pipette device by sucking and discharging a liquid, so that the magnetic material can homogeneously be diffused in a liquid, and also the cleaning efficiency can be improved.
  • sucking and discharge of a liquid is executed between a liquid suction line and a container, the liquid containing magnetic material never splashes out. As a result, the operations of agitation and cleaning can be stabilized and precision in measurement does not become low due to contamination by the magnetic material containing liquid splashing out.
  • a quantity of liquid to be sucked can be controlled by the liquid suction line accurately, so that both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a target material contained in a liquid can be executed with high precision.
  • the method according to the present invention can be applied to various types of apparatus, and in this case a mechanism required for controlling magnetic material can substantially be simplified, and precision in measurement substantially improved and stabilized.

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